St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-05
DAKOTA DOTS AND DASHES.


many of the counties where they have been
so destructive to crops have melted the
genius of inventors to turn the pests to
profit. The editor of the Valley City Times
has met the most notable success in this. He
first devised a machine that blew sulphur
Gus smudge into the holes and suffocated the
animals. He found that while this killed the
gophers it furnished him no tails to draw
bounty on. Hence he has invented an appara-
tus which, applied at the opening of,the holes,
eXhauStS the air and sucks the gopher up
into the machine. An automatic knife then
cuts off his tail, which is all tho county re-
quires. A salve is applied to the wound,
which, it is claimed, will cause the tail to
grow out again, and he passes out to resume
his work. AS another county pays bounty
for heads, he proposes to arrange a second
knife that will take Off the head and secure a
second bounty The bodies, he claims, can
be used at cheap boarding houses. He will
secure patent.
Nearly every locality has record of freez-
ing or narrow escape in the billiards. of the
winter. a somewhat peculiar case was that
of a German named Mann, in the west part
of Ransom county. He started home from
town, about fifteen miles, and on the way
storm overlook him. He wondered about
until sunset, when he saw house so
near that he began to unhitch his
Il SOS to find shelter. But though so
II, j.. the storm was so severe that
he lost sight of the house and wandered
| about two hours before he found it. He led
one horse, leaving the other to follow, but it
stuck in snow drift and was afterwards
taken out on sled almost frozen and taken
care of. In the morning it seemed all right
and, when the stable door was open, dashed
out and run home. the man followed with
the other one, and when he reached there
found the first horSei in his stall dead. 1t was 8
singular case, and no solution of it is given.
Two years ago Charles F.Kunzman,a young
| man who had come to Dakota to seek his for
tune, was holding down his claim and keep
ing bach in his lonely shack. That sort of
| life leads the mind irresistibly to 1natrimony,
and Charley indicated his longing to neigh
| Dor. The latter gave him the name of q
| young lady in Ohio. Charles wrote to her
and she replied. The past month Charles
went TO Ohio TO see the young lady whose
| photograph had adorned his bedpost for a
! long time. They were mutually satisfied and
! Miss Rosa D. Hahn, of De Graft, returns with
| him as his wife to a pleasant home in Buffalo
| county. There are said to be $4,000 other
! bachelors in Dakota, half of whom probably
! have claims, and would be glad to marry If
| eligible parties were put within their reach.
! Clay county in the extreme south has been
| settled over twenty-five years, and the Re
| publican, now in its twenty-seventh year,per-
| ceiveS decided change in the seasons in the
| way of increase of snow and cold. 1t states
| that in early times there was little sleighing,
| and farmers always expected to commence
| sowing wheat in February. The winter of 81
was the nearest like the present. 1t had
| twenty-five inches of snow against fourteen
| the past winter. The 81 winter was not so
/ steadily cold as the one just closing-the lat
| ter being the longest and coolest in twenty
| years. In the spring OF Isl was the great
| flood, the greatest of which there is on record.
| The ice has been going out so rapidly from
| below that it is hoped a serious flood will be
| avoided.
A young man at Carbonate, who was in
| clined to practical joking, carried on CORE
| spondence for a time with an unknown
| young lady in the East ''for mutual informa-
| ton, perhaps with view to matrimony."
He procured the photograph of the village
| hotel keeper and sent it to her rs his own.
! The young lady was so pleased that she
| finally agreed to come out to Dakota and
marry her supposed correspondent She
came out recently and is stopping at the
hotel, but the joker had disappeared. The
situation is very embarrassing for the lady.
The hotel man would marry her were he not
already engaged to another girl.
Some parties are using the fact that ma
iority of the Democrats in Col. Benton's
county refused to vote for Mr.. Day as dele
gate last fall, as q basis for the charge that
his appointment as treasurer was designed to
be specially obnoxious to Mr.. Day. AS a
! mat Ter of fact, Mr.. Benton voted for Day and
advised others to do so, but he was engaged
in local contest, which was carried to 9
brilliant success, that did not allow Demo
cratic politics to be made prominent. He is
not identified with any OF the personal feuds
among leading Democrats in the territory.
One of the high officials of the Manitoba
railroad in reply to u request for sidetracks
at some point on the Western extension from
Devils Lake. said the road would have
| neither time nor material for any switches OIL
branches this season, as every man, tie an6
rail would be needed for the main line which
it was designed to complete TO Great Falls il
Montana before the snow flies. 1t is said the
work of track laying is to go on day and night
with the aid of the most approved devices fol
speed. The job set for the road is Il big one
for the short season in which such work can
be done
The Missouri and Western regions that suf
fered so badly from drought last season are
comforted with the old Indian theory tha
deep SHOWS in the mountains insure ample
moisture for the crops and productive sea
son, All those regions need for big yields is
plenty of rain, and they can hardly have too
much as the soil is somewhat sandy.